ITALY: ITALIAN DESIGNERS UNVEIL THEIR AUTUMN/WINTER COLLECTIONS

Record ID: 231201

  • Title: ITALY: ITALIAN DESIGNERS UNVEIL THEIR AUTUMN/WINTER COLLECTIONS
  • Date: 29th June 1997
  • Summary: MILAN, ITALY (JUNE 29+30, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) (JUNE 30, 1997) 1. GV WIDE OF STAGE / BEGINNING OF GIANFRANCO FERRE SHOW 0.18 2. SLV HIGHLIGHTS OF SHOW 2.33 3. SLV GIANFRANCO FERRE COMING OUT ONTO CATWALK WITH MODELS (3 SHOTS) 2.43 (JUNE 29, 1997) 4. SLV BACKSTAGE AT DOLCE AND GABBANA SHOW 2.57 5. SLV VARIOUS OF DOLCE AND GABBANA SHOW 3.40 6. SV DOMENICO DOLCE AND STEFANO GABBANO WALKING OUT ONTO STAGE 3.42 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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  • Location: MILAN, ITALY
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  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVA4LTC07I0LAZA14AW06N5U5CLN
  • Story Text: INTRO: Italian designers Gianfranco Ferre and the duo Dolce and Gabbana have unveiled their autumn/winter collections in Milan.

    Gianfranco Ferre's collection exuded a conscious sense of freedom, with exaggeration and excess disappearing in favour of comfort.

    Ferre has described his collection as distinctly Mediterranean, saying it comprises a certain tenderness and simplicity - a peacefulness.

    Lightweight jackets with firm support at the shoulders were combined with wide-leg trousers resting on the hips during the show on Monday (June 30).

    Materials used included organzine for suits, T-shirts and jumpsuits. Natural materials such as gabardine, silk blends and cotton chambrays were used for collarless shirts, workshirts and superlight wool crepe jacket-shirts.

    The colours are richly mediterranean, contrasting dense and dark earth, wall and rock tones.

    Italian design duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana's ready-to-wear collection, unveiled on Sunday (June 29) featured a rather more crumpled look.

    Delicate suit fabrics and linens had been washed to give a permanent wrinkle to jackets, pants and jerseys.

    Crumpled hand-stitched suit jackets, buttoned high to small collars, contrasted with narrow-waisted trousers which bagged down the thigh and flopped wide in a turn-up over the shoe.


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